As time would isolate and compare typical for this time names Levitan, Serov, and Nesterov, so now in our submission closely together big names Surikov, Repin and Vasnetsov. This is the group which identified throughout modern Russian painting. In our art is so little of powerful talents, big personalities, Russian paintings are so young that we should particularly assess the importance of made almost our eyes, and convinced three talented Russian artists. Never in Russian art of the national consciousness was not shown as much as in the works of these masters. And from lovely to Levitsky Archaeology boring all our art is clouded influence of the West and mostly bad onemecheno.

As long as the West might seem seductive edge, which developed a huge unknown and art, which heard only fragmentary voices, Russian artists were caught in every grain, and sought to do "whatever". They absolutely no time to think about themselves when they fancied that they know where the truth, and only stretched to get it. Pride was not in them, and this was their misfortune. The first and greatest achievement Surikov, Repin and, most importantly, Vasnetsov that they were not afraid to be themselves. Their attitude toward the West was called, and they first noticed the harm indiscriminate admiration for him. How brave Russian nature, they caused the West to fight and, thanks to the power of his spirit, broke the previous torpor. But they were bold and could do so only with a single and inevitable conditions – close and tactile familiarity with the same hostile West.